Facts about "global warming"?

Question

I need credible books, websites, and newspaper articles talking about the facts of global warming. does anyone have info on where I can find scientific data? I want both sides of the story as well. I want to know if it really exists based on facts and evidence, if people are the cause or if it is mainly just the earth itself and there is really nothing people can do about it, and, is it just a big scam to make money on it like Al Gore has done.

give me answers with facts and evidence from either side. if you are here to express your views, thanks, I will take your two cents but your answer is of no real value to me.

Answer 1

National Academy of Sciences...

http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/clim...

Answer 2

There is no absolute proof either way. Global Warming is a religion for the godless, just ask the Rev. Al Gore.

What I find amusing is that, just as the new home for the pedophile is the Catholic Church, the new home for the environmental communists, is the global warming movement, the tactics, and the proposed outcome are the same, government control of every aspect of your life.

Answer 3

The process of radiative forcing, which is the mechanism of global warming is real. However, a human caused catastrophic end of the world by global warming is completely false.

http://www.junkscience.com

http://www.co2science.org

http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/...

http://www.climatescience.org.nz

http://www.globalwarming.org

http://www.climateaudit.org

http://www.globalwarminghoax.com

http://www.cgfi.org/materials/articles/2...

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article...

http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm

http://eaps.mit.edu/faculty/lindzen/198_...

http://www.cei.org

Answer 4

There are currently no facts supporting 'man-did-it' global warming..... only speculation..... now That is a fact!!

Answer 5

this guy can tell you pretty much anything. everything. manpollo.org

Answer 6

Just be careful that some of these "facts" supporting it are not distorted data. I have heard of that happening.

Answer 7

Arguments don't require proof...people can make up and discuss whatever they want to.  Global warming is a big joke...here's a fact: here in Iowa we've had the coldest winter and coolest summer.  If the earth is warming, why in the heck is it so much colder than normal?  Fact.

Answer 8

I have spent over a year researching global warming, wanting to know the facts just as you are asking.  Remember that AGW is a theory nothing more.  To claim that it is truth rather than theory ignores scientific method.  The theory is based on the following logical fallacy: “Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have burned increasing amounts of fossil fuels and thus emitting increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere.  Since the Industrial Revolution, the Earth’s average temperature has increased.  Therefore human CO2 emissions must be the cause of the temperature increase.”  

A theory cannot be proven through experimentation, but it can only be disproven.  When an observation does not follow what was predicted by the theory, the theory is proven false.  Over the last 10 years, annual CO2 emissions have steadily increased.  AGW theory predicts that the temperature should go up.  The average global temperature has in fact gone down over the last 10 years.  That is why we are all busy fighting “climate change” instead of global warming.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwar...

http://www.warwickhughes.com/icecore/zjm...

http://brneurosci.org/co2.html

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/w...

Answer 9

There is currently no evidence that man has made any significant contribution to climate change.

Some interesting facts.

1. During most of the past 2,000 years, the temp has been about the same or higher. Currently, we are barely over the average for the last 2,000 years.

http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index....

2. During the medieval warm period (820 – 1040 AD), Greenland supported farming. Those areas previously farmed are now covered in glaciers. Obviously the melting and reformation of glaciers is a cyclical occurrence.

3. The earth experienced a little ice age which ended around the late 1860's or so. This is about the time man started recording temperatures. This would be like measuring a lake depth after a severe drought, then worrying about it flooding as it rose to normal levels.

4. The earth has been warming for the last 18,000 years, since the last major glacier time period. During this time frame, the glaciers have been melting at a fairly consistent rate. Also, for most of the last 1 billion years, the earth had NO glaciers or ice coverage.

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/i...

5. The AGW theory states that CO2 is the primary driver of temperature. They arrived at this idea because they did not know of anything else which could cause it. But during the 70's and during the current decade, temperatures dropped while CO2 continued to rise. This means that natural occurrences are driving temp, not CO2.

6. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation and sun spots provides a much better correlation to earths' temperature than CO2 levels ever have.

http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/200...

http://motls.blogspot.com/2004/09/sunspo...

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/sppi_r...

7. Polar Bears are experiencing a population boom. Coke sales in the arctics are through the roof. Polar Bears have been around for thousands of years, and remember, we are only at the average for the last 2,000 years. They lived through all the previously warmer climates.

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/...

8. Many glaciers are expanding. Even Antarctica is growing on 98% of is land mass. Only 2% is melting.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1...

9. There is no consensus on AGW. This was a lie that has been propagated by the media.

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckt...

10. Yes we emit CO2 into the atmosphere and it is a greenhouse gas, but, we only contribute about .28% of all the greenhouse effect. Water vapor makes up about 95% of the greenhouse effect. CO2 and other trace gases round out the greenhouse gases at about 5% for all of them. Of that 5%, only 3% is CO2, and most of that is natural. Again, our contribution to the greenhouse effect is a paltry .28%

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenh...

11. The spread of disease is not attributed mainly to temperature. If this were the case, Florida would be a giant festering disease ridden cesspool. Economic standing is the primary determining factor in the spread of disease. Poor cultures can not fight the disease or eradicate the pests like more successful nations.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12077886...

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.h...

12. Natural climate disasters (hurricanes, cyclones, etc) have never been scientifically linked to global warming (whether natural or man made).

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppa...

http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?i...

In fact, we have less hurricanes hitting the USA than earlier in the century.

http://www.junkscience.com/Hurricanes/de...

And cyclones are less frequent than in the past.

http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/de...

Answer 10

Here is a wonderful website to go to about Global Warming:

http://save-r-planet.webs.com/

Thanks, and I hope this helps!

Answer 11

You won’t find really credible books or websites on either end. People either believe or don’t believe (like in god, etc.)

Here some links for not to believe (I don’t know how credible they are, check for yourself):

http://www.thelocal.se/12580/

http://georgewythecollege.blogspot.com/2...

http://www.globalwarminghoax.com/news.ph...

Answer 12

Stop studying all the other peoples opinions. Study Photosynthesis.

Where do U think our present supply of fossil fuel came from? Wrong it is not animal fossils but plant fossils. The plants take in CO2 and give us the O2. The plant keeps the C . what does oil have in it possible the C. Plants capture the energy from the sun and store it as oil like olive oil and even grass seed have oil in them. The plants have done this for millions of years and it will continue for the next million if the plants can get the CO2. This means we will never run out of fossil fuels....